My little girl just had a prolapsed vent a few days ago, she's very prone to having soft shelled eggs and what not. Today she layed a thin shelled egg. And doesn't seem to be having any issues but I am skeptical. She wants to sit on the egg (it's not fertilized) but if I let her go broody she...
I just went to pick up my hen and her rear end was all wet and there is something hanging out of her vent. What should I do?!
It went back in and I am giving her a warm
Bath to clean her up, but not using soap.
Two White Silkies in need of re-homing due to space issues--Born January 21 an 23, 2015. The babies are people friendly and have been handled daily since birth. Below are pictures as recent as this past friday. The parents come from a champion bloodline and are bred to the American standard of...
I want to enter my chickens into the Bolton Fair and it says that chickens over 16 weeks need to be leg banned with a state leg band. Does anyone know how I can acquire state leg bans?
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I live in Ma..
Our Silkie is hatching chicks and I want to make sure that the babies are vaccinated the same as the rest of our flock. All of the other chickens come from a NPIP certified hatchery, are US pullorium-typhoid free, and received the Marek's Disease vaccine.
The chicks are going to be fed Blue...
Hello Everyone,
We started to notice strange behavior in one of our silkies when she was about 3 weeks old, she is now 12 weeks old, and has maintained this odd behavior.
At first we had thought she was a goner, with her neck turned completely under her body- we started her on a pedialyte...